Eleanor Holmes Norton: “I think it's almost quaint to hear a jurisdiction of 650,000 American citizens referred to as a Federal District.”

I urge Members to vote ``no.'' Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Goldman).

I think returning to a pre-Sackett regime would provide a uniform level of protection across the United States.

I’m gonna run. I don’t know why anybody would even ask me.

In my long career representing D.C. residents in Congress, I have rarely seen a bill as unreasonable and patronizing to the more than 700,000 people who live in the nation’s capital as this one.